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...just waiting to speak. You are really talking to someone." Richard Burton found her "exceptionally professional." Or as Elizabeth Taylor put it, "terrifyingly professional." Which doesn't suggest, added Liz, that Sandy isn't "rather nitty at times-I mean she is not like your next-door neighbor...
Some 5,000 thieves and arsonists were ravaging the West Side. Williams Drug Store was a charred shell by dusk. More than one grocery collapsed as though made of Lincoln Logs. A paint shop erupted and took the next-door apartment house with it. In many skeletal structures the sole sign of life was a wailing burglar alarm. Lou's Men's Wear expired in a ball of flame. Meantime, a mob of 3,000 took up the torch on the East Side several miles away. The Weather Bureau's tornado watch offered brief hope of rain...
...sequence shots of Homelies' anatomies.) Bulbous noses! Flabby jowls! Weak chins! Retreating hairlines! Bloated waistlines! They've got everything! Everything that it takes to sell merchandise! Why? (Executive mouths words why, why, why.) Because they're real people! They're believable! They're your next-door neighbors, faces on the street, reflections in the bathroom mirror! TV viewers relate to them! They identify! Get it? (Executive nods excitedly, rushes off to find nearest Homely...
Ulbricht's next-door unneighborliness was ironic in light of a 20% trade increase last year between the two Germanys. Of $750 million worth of goods exchanged between the two countries, West German exports, mostly in industrial products, accounted for $425 million; East German exports, mainly agricultural, textile and mining items, made up the rest...
...Americans seem to repudiate stiff-backed reporters who blandly mouth the words, but on the other hand have all the time in the world to listen to a shirt-sleeved next-door neighbor like Cronkite. It would be interesting to see him some night speaking into an old carbon mike from a rickety desk, being televised from an old television camera of dubious condition, and reading from copy that is so red-penciled it's hardly legible. The bets are down that he could still get more across to his news-thirsty viewers than anybody else...